Enterprising student to boost Cornish economy

An interesting, but confusing, story appeared in recent days concerning a young English student who in an effort to “...raise some cash”, set up a website to sell Pixies.

When I first overheard this story I was surprised on two counts. Firstly, the proximity of the word “student” to the word “enterprising” was unusual, and far less common than its usual association with the words “drunk”, “partying”, “desperate” or “comatose”. Secondly, despite our recent visit to the Cornish River Area (we stayed close to the River Fal), I was still of the belief that 'Pixies' were imaginary!

Well the student in question's plan was to sell not one, but one million Pixies for a dollar each. Now I would have thought that the going rate for a live Pixie would have been much higher, and would personally have sold one Pixie for one million dollars. But to be fair, I didn't have the idea and however flawed the original plan, this week the millionth Pixie was sold, and the young student is one million dollars to the good.

What is to become of the Pixies I don't know, although if anybody wanted to put them to good use, I'm sure they could help out on the rail network (see A return to the Age of Steam) as a new type of PPE - Polish - Pixie Enterprise.

Anybody wanting to read more about the student's web page should visit the following link.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4585026.stm